CD v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2020] UKUT 219 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision of Judge Ward on 8 July 2020.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 5 August 2020

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Judges: Ward, C
• Decision date: 8 July 2020

Read the full decision in V/954/2019.

Judicial Summary

Although there are areas of overlap between the remit of the Disclosure and Barring Service and that of the Probation Service, it is primarily for the individual to obtain and supply to DBS the evidence which he wishes to have considered. In circumstances where the individual had not supplied it, nor indicated that he wished to provide it but had been unable to obtain it, the DBS was not in error of law for failing on its own initiative to obtain a report from the Probation Service as to the level of risk the latter considered the individual to represent.

Published 5 August 2020